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 #1284616  by NorthPennLimited
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/artic ... orest.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Link to a well photographed, poorly written news story about a SEPTA boneyard for trolleys and subway cars (the author calls them all trains).

Other than Reading Historical Society and Strausburg Museum, Did anyone else preserve a SEPTA RDC, Blue Car, or Pioneer/Budd car?

Where did most of the blue cars end up after they were replaced by the push-pulls?
 #1284629  by LIRRtoRIDGE
 
NorthPennLimited wrote:poorly written news story about a SEPTA boneyard for trolleys and subway cars (the author calls them all trains).
agree "trains" in railroading usually refers to multiple rolling stock that is connected. The term though has been accepted in general public as a colloquialism for anything that runs on rails. Kind of like the little kid who pushes a toy diesel locomotives while yelling "whoo whoooo!"

As for the link - is that an old KC car in bicentennial paint?
 #1284654  by RCman2626
 
We have 5 Blueliners at the West Chester Railroad...9107, 9109, 9114, 9117 and 9124. All have been de-motored and are used as coaches. There are a fair amount of them still in the area.
 #1284656  by glennk419
 
Many of the "SEPTA" ex-Reading RDC's are still in existence with several still serviceable. Two (9166, 9168) are on the Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern at Port Clinton, two (9153, 9167) are on the Nittany and Bald Eagle in Bellefonte and several others ended up on the Hobo Railroad in New England. 9152 is at the RCTHS, 9163, ex-LV 40 resides at RRMPA in Strasburg, 9169 is on the North Shore RR in Minnesota and 9164 was scrapped after being wrecked in the Southampton, PA fuel tanker collision.

As for the Blueliners, several were purchased by the RBMN for use as excursion coaches and are running out of Jim Thorpe on the Lehigh Gorge trains, five are restored and operating on the West Chester RR, one is on the New Hope & Ivyland RR and one still resides, landlocked, adjacent to SEPTA's Robert's Yard.

Budd SLII 9001 is slated for the RCTHS and there is a Pioneer car at Strasburg but the future of that particular car is in doubt. The bulk of the remaining Pioneer cars went to Pueblo, CO for crash tests and as we all know, most of the remaining SLII's and III's have been or are in the process of being converted to razor blades.

Additional information on surviving equipment can be found here: http://www.readingrailroad.org/survivin ... quip.shtml
 #1284689  by NorthPennLimited
 
Great summary Glenk419.

Were the blue cars' running gear converted to roller bearings, or do they still carry their old friction bearings on RBMN and WCRR?
 #1284695  by RCman2626
 
Our 5 at WCRR are still friction bearing. I believe all others are too. The Taylor Flex Truck is a very unique truck. A conversion to roller bearings would be difficult and quite expensive.
 #1284853  by ExCon90
 
LIRRtoRIDGE wrote:
NorthPennLimited wrote:poorly written news story about a SEPTA boneyard for trolleys and subway cars (the author calls them all trains).
As for the link - is that an old KC car in bicentennial paint?
I think they're both KC cars.
 #1284881  by nickrapak
 
glennk419 wrote:Many of the "SEPTA" ex-Reading RDC's are still in existence with several still serviceable. two (9153, 9167) are on the Nittany and Bald Eagle in Bellefonte
Just some more info on these two cars: Both are actually owned by the Bellefonte Railroad Historical Society, which operates over most of the same tracks as NBER, but is unrelated. BHRS recently received a grant for a rebuild of 9167, and it will probably return to operation some time in 2015.
 #1284913  by glennk419
 
nickrapak wrote:
glennk419 wrote:Many of the "SEPTA" ex-Reading RDC's are still in existence with several still serviceable. two (9153, 9167) are on the Nittany and Bald Eagle in Bellefonte
Just some more info on these two cars: Both are actually owned by the Bellefonte Railroad Historical Society, which operates over most of the same tracks as NBER, but is unrelated. BHRS recently received a grant for a rebuild of 9167, and it will probably return to operation some time in 2015.
Thanks Nick. I guess I had it half right. The last info that I had was that 9167 was "on loan". Regardless, I'm happy that it survives and even happier that it will be returned to service.
 #1285264  by 25Hz
 
‘Almost as If the apocalypse had happened years ago but we didn't even know.’
1983 would be the year. ;)
 #1295729  by csxmonsub
 
Those cars are located in Windber Pa near Johnstown Pa and are owned by a private owner who is not especially railfan friendly. This has been discussed on other forums and Yahoo groups. Why the author said they are located in North Carolina is anyone's guess. This is a roster of cars there courtesy of Roster of Preserved North American Electric Railway Cars

http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc-quer ... %20Company" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1295984  by SubwayTim
 
Are there any PRR MP54's still in existence...whether being used on a historic/tourist excursion railroad, on display at a railroad museum, or just sitting in a yard or in the woods somewhere being claimed by Mother Nature and rotting away??? It would be a shame if no MP54's were saved, as they were to PRR, as the Blueliners were to Reading.
 #1296088  by Clearfield
 
SubwayTim wrote:Are there any PRR MP54's still in existence...whether being used on a historic/tourist excursion railroad, on display at a railroad museum, or just sitting in a yard or in the woods somewhere being claimed by Mother Nature and rotting away??? It would be a shame if no MP54's were saved, as they were to PRR, as the Blueliners were to Reading.
There is an MP54 at the PA Railroad Museum, as well as a Reading MU #800.
 #1297530  by cnj1524
 
The MP54 at RRMofPA was scrapped several years ago,there was a septa MP54 in jersey,part of URHS but
may have be scrapped as well